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Chapter 6: First Day Back
The next morning, Ginny woke up to an excited blond girl bouncing up and down on her bed while she uncurled her hair from the curling iron in her hand.
"Get up, Gin! You're late!" said Brittany, jumping off the bed to try and convince Taylor to put on some mascara.
Ginny sat up sleepily. "What time is it?" she asked nobody in particular. She rubbed her eyes to try and focus.
"It's about an hour 'til breakfast," said Melissa from the bathroom the four girls shared. "Hey, Gin, what earrings should I wear?"
She held up a pair of earrings in each hand for Ginny to look at.
"Umm…the silver ones."
Melissa held up the silver hoops, and Ginny nodded.
"Okey-Dokey."
Ginny slowly got out of bed, and started looking for some clean jeans to wear under her robes.
"Come on you guys," said Taylor from the doorway. She was already fully dressed and had her bag swung over her shoulder. "You don't want to be late for the first day of school!" She waved good-bye and headed down to the common room.
"Why is she up so early?" asked Ginny. Taylor was the one that usually slept in later of the four girls.
"Dunno," said Brittany's muffled voice, her mouth was full of bobby pins she was about to put in her hair. "Sounds fishy."
"I know what it is," said Melissa, as usual as though she knew something they didn't.
"What?" asked Brittany excitedly, forgetting about the hair pins all together, and running over to hear the juicy gossip from Melissa.
"Well..," she said. "On the train yesterday, I was looking for an empty compartment and I found her and Mark Brown kissing!"
"No!" said Brittany, staring at Melissa with her mouth open, the hair pins falling to the floor. "Mark Brown? The seventh year!"
"Yep," said Melissa. "They were very embarrassed when I walked in on them. I'm guessing that's where she went."
"Oooo…" said Brittany.
Ginny wasn't too surprised at this news. All three of her friends were always hooking up with a different guy every week. She, on the other hand, liked to have long-lasting relationships.
They finally got dressed and headed down to the Great Hall for breakfast. Taylor was still there, and sure enough, she was sitting next to Mark Brown and his friends, but she didn't look embarrassed at all to Ginny. In fact, she waved at them as they entered the hall, and motioned for them to sit with her, which they did, trying to look surprised at the seating arrangements.
Professor McGonagall walked briskly up to the fifth-year Gryffindor girls and handed them their new schedule.
"Oh, no!" moaned Brittany beside her. "We have Snape first period!"
Snape was now teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts this year.
"I wonder what that class is going to be like," said Ginny, looking up at the Staff Table where Snape was looking over the students with a disgusted look on his face.
"Yeah, me too," said Taylor.
Ginny was just about to ask about Slughorn when someone tapped her on the shoulder. She turned around to find Dean grinning at her.
"Hey," he said. "Are you done?"
"Yeah," said Ginny. "You wanna talk?"
"Yeah, come on."
He led Ginny by the hand out of the Great Hall, with "ahhh" from all her friends.
Dean led her to an empty classroom, where they sat down on upside-down desks.
"What did you want to talk about?" asked Ginny.
"It's just I won't get to see you as much because your not in my year," said Dean, looking into Ginny's eyes. "But I want to make up for it."
"How" asked Ginny, grinning
"Like this," said Dean, and he kissed her on the lips. Ginny leaned into him as the kiss became more passionate. Dean wrapped his arms around her waist, and Ginny rested against his chest. They broke apart, but still lay in each other's arms for a long time.
Dean lifted up Ginny's chin with his finger so they were staring into each other's eyes. "You are so beautiful," he said.
Ginny felt her heart melt into his dark brown eyes. She didn't ever want to stop staring into his eyes, leaning into him, the most protected she had ever felt in her life.
Suddenly, the bell rang, and Ginny was jerked out of her day-dream. She got up, picked up her bag, and tried to pat down her hair from where Dean had ruffled her hair.
"Bye," she said, as she opened up the door.
"See ya," said Dean, kissing her on the cheek before he headed down the hall the opposite way. Ginny stared after him for a few seconds before she realized it had been several minutes after class had begun.
Author's note: Sorry it takes me so long to write! School sucks! Anyway, the more your review, the faster I write!